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Hydro-Political Assessment of Water Governance from the Top-down and Review of Literature on Local Level Institutions and Practices in the Volta Basin

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dc.contributor.author Opoku-Ankomah, Yaw
dc.contributor.author Dembélé, Youssouf
dc.contributor.author Ampomah, Ben Y.
dc.contributor.author Somé, Léopold
dc.date.accessioned 2009-09-08T15:01:47Z
dc.date.available 2009-09-08T15:01:47Z
dc.date.issued 2006 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4750
dc.description.abstract "So how can transboundary institutions be built, which address sub-Saharan Africas unique conditions? This project on African Models of Transboundary River Basin Governance hypothesizes that, through an indigenous African 'bottom-up' approach, starting from local traditions and social arrangements, it will be possible to create more resilient and successful transboundary water institutions than would otherwise be possible, while also giving greater voice to the poor, women and men alike, in the process. In order to tackle this problem, the project began with an assessment of the current institutional arrangements from a historical perspective. This is largely a literature review, using published and unpublished sources. The present Working Paper reports on the results of this historical hydro-political assessment of the Volta River Basin. The second phase of the project is currently (2005-2006) supporting groups of postgraduate students, who are doing detailed case study field work in rural areas, in order to identify potential local traditions and social arrangements that could possibly be built into the design of larger-scale river basins." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries IWMI Working Paper, no. 111 en_US
dc.subject water management en_US
dc.subject river basins en_US
dc.subject institutions en_US
dc.subject conflict en_US
dc.subject international relations en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject women en_US
dc.subject price en_US
dc.subject social organization en_US
dc.title Hydro-Political Assessment of Water Governance from the Top-down and Review of Literature on Local Level Institutions and Practices in the Volta Basin en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US


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